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The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)
Philip Lutley Sclater and Oldfield Thomas
The blue-buck vanished before science could truly know it, and here Sclater sets down what remained. This final antelope volume gathers the great sable, the roan, and their lost cousin, closing a four-part monument to the tribe. A fitting end to one of natural history's most beautiful surveys. Meet the noblest antelopes, including one the world has lost.
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50 chapters
- 1THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
- 4Subfamily VI. HIPPOTRAGINÆ.
- 5Genus I. HIPPOTRAGUS.
- 6110. THE BLUE-BUCK. HIPPOTRAGUS LEUCOPHÆUS (Pall.). [PLATE LXXVI.]
- 7111. THE ROAN ANTELOPE. HIPPOTRAGUS EQUINUS (DESM.). [PLATES LXXVII. LXXVIIL]
- 8112. THE SABLE ANTELOPE. HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER (Harr.). [PLATES LXXIX. LXXX.]
- 9Genus II. ORYX.
- 10113. THE LEUCORYX. ORYX LEUCORYX (Licht.). [PLATE LXXXI]
- 11114. THE BEATRIX ANTELOPE. ORYX BEATRIX, Gray. [PLATE LXXXII.]
- 12115. THE GEMSBOK. ORYX GAZELLA (Linn.). [PLATE LXXXIII.]
- 13116. THE BEISA. ORYX BEISA (Rüpp.). [PLATE LXXXIV.]
- 14117. THE TUFTED BEISA. ORYX CALLOTIS, Thomas. [PLATE LXXXV.]
- 15GENUS III. ADDAX.
- 16118. THE ADDAX. ADDAX NASO-MACULATUS (Blainv.). [PLATE LXXXVI.]
- 17Subfamily VII. TRAGELAPHINÆ.
- 18Genus I. BOSELAPHUS.
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